17th Century porn, earthquakes, and Stickpigs, oh my!

These were the things that made up my trip to Chicago today.

We started our trip with the aquarium. We got to see a Caribbean reef exhibit, and there was an injured sea turtle. It got hit with a boat propeller and it gashed her shell almost to her spine. The incident affected her buoyancy, and her back end floated while the rest of her swam. In the same tank were several rays, one of which was very little, and kept following the diver that was in the tank around. It reminded me of Maddie, all "Ooh, what do you have? I want some! Hey, what's that over there? Wow, you got something good, can I have some? HEY, let's go attack that fish!"

Next up was the Field Museum. There was an exhibit on mythical creatures, which Aidan and Josh COMPLETELY ate up. Then we went into the ancient Egyptian part, which was pretty cool. Then we got to the natural disasters exhibit. It showed all kinds of stuff, like earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, twisters, volcanic eruptions... there was a seismograph that picked stuff up from 8 feet away. It was so cool! We were stomping around the room, and we watched the line on the screen just JUMP.

Then, at the art museum, I started to ponder a question first posed in Calvin and Hobbes: If this is supposed to be great art, why does it all look like a bunch of naked people? That's when I thought, what if this is all just 17th century porn? Historians (and my mom) say that these artists claimed the human body was a work of art, but how do WE know that? We're basing our "facts" on what historians think they know. How do we know that this wasn't just an early way of selling porn?

Finally, on the train ride home, we got to discussing how much I'd eaten that afternoon. I had some mozzarella sticks, a big piece of garlic cheese bread, 4 and a half pieces of pizza, and a Cinnabon. That's more than anyone else had. My mom called me a pig, but that's impossible, seeing as I'm skinny as a rail. I'm a pig, but I'm a stick figure. Hence, the term "Stickpig": someone who eats a lot, but never seems to gain weight.

Yeah, that pretty much sums up my whole trip today.